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0 pointsWhereIsTheTruth2y ago0 comments

Is it even what they use in production?

There is code that favor Elon's tweets so I'd yes that's probably what they use

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Humorous conspiracy theory: Imagine if it is not, but sanitized, and then someone added in Elon Boost to make it look credible. :-)

WhereIsTheTruthOP2y ago

Or perhaps it does nothing at all, and it was there so we talk about it, the "is_democrat"/"is_republican" is also ridiculous, as if the goal was to demonstrate a point about social media in general, hmm

0l2y ago

> There is code that favor Elon's tweets so I'd yes that's probably what they use

Where?

zaroth2y ago

Spoiler - there isn’t.

ftxbro2y ago

Yeah they track author_is_elon, author_is_democrat, and author_is_republican but they don't appear to be used for favoritism anywhere in this code.

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